FILM CALENDAR OCTOBER 4-DECEMBER 24, 2019 THE LIGHTHOUSE A Robert Eggers Film Coming Soon Chicago’s Year-Round Film Festival 3733 N. Southport Avenue, Chicago www.musicboxtheatre.com 773.871.6607 JOKER MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS THE SOUND OF MUSIC VARDA BY AGNÈS IT’S A WONDERFUL *ON 70MM* 24 HOUR MOVIE SING-A-LONG OPENS LIFE & WHITE OPENS OCTOBER 4 MARATHON NOVEMBER 29 - DECEMBER 6 CHRISTMAS OCTOBER 19 DECEMBER 8 DECEMBER 12 - 24 Welcome TO THE MUSIC BOX THEATRE! FEATURE FILMS 5 JOKER IN 70MM OPENS OCTOBER 4 6 FIRST LOVE OPENS OCTOBER 4 7 STALKER OPENS OCTOBER 18 9 THE LIGHTHOUSE COMING SOON 11 BY THE GRACE OF GOD COMING SOON 14 MARRIAGE STORY OPENS NOVEMBER 15 18 VARDA BY AGNES OPENS DECEMBER 6 COMMENTARY 22 VARDA BY AGNES 24 CHRISTMAS DOUBLE FEATURE SERIES 27 DORIS DAY MATINEES 28 SILENT CINEMA 29 CHICAGO FILM SOCIETY 31 MIDNIGHTS SPECIAL EVENTS 6 HEX-A-LONG HOCUS POCUS OCTOBER 18 7 MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS OCTOBER 19 8 AN EVENING WITH ADAM RIPPON OCTOBER 20 8 JAY AND SILENT BOB REBOOT OCTOBER 21 9 BLUE WHISKEY INDIE FILM FEST OCTOBER 23 10 ROCKY HORROR HALLOWEEN OCTOBER 25-31 10 HALLOWEEN DOUBLE FEATURE OCTOBER 27 11 FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 1 & 2 LET’S TAKE THIS OUTSIDE! 12 MOUNTAIN FILM ON TOUR NOVEMBER 10 12 GOING ATTRACTIONS NOVEMBER 12 Bring your films to the parks with Chicago Onscreen, the Chicago 14 CHICAGO FESTIVAL OF ISRAELI CINEMA NOVEMBER 14 15 PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES NOVEMBER 20 Park District’s annual traveling exhibition of Chicago-made films. 15 DRINK-A-LONG: DROP DEAD GORGEOUS NOVEMBER 27 17 SING-A-LONG SOUND OF MUSIC NOV 29-DEC 8 16 EL SANTO DOUBLE FEATURE DECEMBER 3 16 MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET DECEMBER 5 Accepting Locally-Produced & Chicago-Focused 18 ALTERNATIVE XMAS DOUBLE FEATURE DECEMBER 11 & 17 20 CHRISTMAS SING-A-LONG AND DOUBLE Film Submissions October 14-December 6. FEATURE DECEMBER 12-24 SUBMIT YOUR FILM chicagoparkdistrict.com/onscreen Brian Andreotti, Director of Programming VOLUME 37 ISSUE 158 Ryan Oestreich, General Manager Copyright 2019 Southport Music Box Corp. MusicBoxTheatre.com Buck LePard, Senior Operations Manager Claire Alden, Group Sales and Membership Manager Published by Newcity Custom Publishing Newcitynetwork.com Steve Prokopy, Public Relations Manager For information, email [email protected] Julian Antos, Technical Director and Assistant Programmer or call 312.243.8786 Kyle Westphal, Programming Associate Rebecca Lyon, Assistant Technical Director Cover Image from the film THE LIGHTHOUSE coming soon to the Music Box Theatre Dennis Scott, House Organist Music Box Theatre 3733 North Southport musicboxtheatre.com 773-871-6604 showtimes 773-871-6607 office 3 FEATURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS OPENS OCTOBER 4 FEATURE FILM A Z Z A M E O J Y B O T O H P WINNER - Best Film - Venice Film Festival 2019 Presented on 70mm! A truly nightmarish vision of JOKER “ late-era capitalism – arguably the best social horror film since GET OUT – and Joaquin DIRECTED BY: Todd Phillips Phoenix is magnetic in it.” STARRING: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Marc Maron –Time Out 2019, 122 mins, 70mm A dazzlingly disturbed psycho Director Todd Phillips’ JOKER centers around the iconic arch nemesis “morality play” –Variety and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night…but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study. 4 Features and Special Events 5 FEATURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS OPENS OCTOBER 4 FEATURE OPENS OCTOBER 18 FEATURE FILM FILM Imported STALKER 35mm Print! FIRST LOVE An exhilarating cocktail DIRECTED BY: Andrei Tarkovsky “of bloodbath violence and STARRING: Alexander Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko DIRECTED BY: Takashi Miike tar-black humour” 1979, 161 mins, 35mm, In Russian with English subtitles STARRING: Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Shota Sometani, Sakurako Konishi –Screen International One of the most immersive and rarefied experiences in the history of cinema, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 2019, 108 mins, DCP, In Japanese with English subtitles FIRST LOVE might start as STALKER embarks on a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic post-apocalyptic landscape. A hired FIRST LOVE is the prolific auteur Takashi Miike (AUDITION, ICHI THE “a hard-boiled piece of pulp guide—the “Stalker” of the title—leads a writer and a scientist into the heart of the Zone, the restricted fiction, but it isn’t long before KILLER) at his most fun and anarchic, a noir-tinged yakuza film blending it softens into a violent, site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumored to genres in the story of a young boxer and a call girl, who fall passionately hilarious, and violently fulfill one’s most deeply held desires. At once a religious allegory, a reflection of contemporary political in love while getting innocently caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme hilarious madcap comedy” anxieties, and a meditation on film itself—among many other interpretations—STALKER envelops the over the course of one night in Tokyo. –IndieWire viewer by opening up a multitude of possible meanings. OCTOBER 18 SPECIAL OCTOBER 19 SPECIAL EVENT EVENT HEX-A-LONG HOCUS POCUS THE MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS Friday October 18 at 7pm & 10pm Saturday, October 19 at Noon (Kenny Ortega, 1993, 96 mins, 35mm) Once again, the chilling air of October signals the return of THE MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS, This Halloween, the Sanderson Sisters are casting their spell over Chicago! our annual 24-hour frightfest of the most terrifying, pulse-pounding movies you’ll ever see. Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker star as 17th-century Salem Special guests include Director Neil Marshall with his lycanthropic film debut DOG SOLDIERS witches who rise from the dead to wreak havoc on the early-‘90s. And with and Director John Hancock with a 16mm screening of LET’S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH. Other HEX-A-LONG HOCUS POCUS, you can join in on the wicked mischief! Dick O’Day photo by Rick Aguilar pulse-pounding presentations take you from the far reaches of deep space Hosted by Dick O’Day, you can shout, sing, and scream along during our interactive in Paul W.S. Anderson’s EVENT HORIZON to down into the sewers with screening. Plus, the magic is in your hands with our goody bags, full of candy, bubbles, streamers Lewis Teague’s ALLIGATOR to the afterlife in Lamberto Bava’s DEMONS 2. and more. So put on your wildest Halloween costume, hop on your broom (or vacuum), and fly over Sponsored by Creepy Co., our macabre movie marathon also includes to the Music Box! exclusive merchandise, vendors, food trucks, and more! 6 Music Box Theatre October-December 2019 Features and Special Events 7 FEATURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS OCTOBER 20 SPECIAL EVENT AN EVENING WITH ADAM RIPPON Use Code Presented by The Book Stall MUSICBOXCAL Sunday, October 20 at 7pm for $2.00 OFF! Former Olympic figure skater, DANCING WITH THE STARS Champion and self- professed America’s Sweetheart Adam Rippon! From traveling to skating practices on the Greyhound bus next to ex-convicts to being so poor he could only afford to eat the free apples at his gym, Rippon got through the toughest times with a smile on his face, a glint in his eye, and quip ready for anyone listening, and BEAUTIFUL ON THE OUTSIDE details his journey. Adam will be on stage and in conversation with author, queer historian, and Chicago LGBT Hall-of-Famer Owen Keehnen. October 23, 2019 • 7:00PM Celebrating 100 Years of Cinema | cinemacentennial.com OCTOBER 21 SPECIAL COMING SOON FEATURE EVENT FILM JAY AND SILENT BOB REBOOT ROADSHOW With Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith in person THE LIGHTHOUSE Encore JAY Leaves you dazed, terrified and AND SILENT BOB elated, and it signals Eggers as REBOOT Screenings “ Monday, October 21 at 7pm & 10pm DIRECTED BY: Robert Eggers one of the most exciting directors on October 25 & 26 working today.” (Kevin Smith, 2019, 90 mins, DCP) STARRING: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe –Time Out at Midnight 2019, 109 mins, DCP Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith come to the Music Box to show their latest and greatest motion picture, the star studded JAY AND SILENT BOB REBOOT. The New The most immersive film From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind modern “experience of the year can be found Jersey stoner icons who first hit the screen 25 years ago in CLERKS are back! When Jay horror masterpiece THE WITCH, comes this hypnotic and in THE LIGHTHOUSE, a throwback and Silent Bob discover that Hollywood is rebooting an old movie based on them, the clueless duo hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and black-and-white fever dream” embark on another cross-country mission to stop it all over again! mysterious New England island in the 1890s. –The Wrap 8 Music Box Theatre October-December 2019 Features and Special Events 9 FEATURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS OCTOBER 25-31 SPECIAL NOVEMBER 1 & 2 SPECIAL EVENT EVENT THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW HALLOWEEN EDITION! FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 - THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31 A Halloween tradition, get ready to do the Time Warp again with THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW! As Brad and Janet approach the castle of the fabulous Dr.